Nintendo has won a patent suit filed against eight of its handheld consoles, including the 3DS, DSi and Game Boy Advance.
The suit was filed by the Quintal Research Group after it secured a parent for a "computerized information retrieval system" back in 2008. The crucial bit of the patent focused on the device "having a generally rectangular shape with a display screen on one side that has a frame with an ergonomic placement of finger controls including a pair of thumb controls on the top of the display with at least one of the finger controls being a cursor or pointer control."
Though Quintal swiftly informed Nintendo about the patent at the start of 2009 and offered the Japanese giant a license four times, Nintendo refused to continue discussions in July of the same year.Quintal filed the suit in February 2013 and sought damages, costs and other relief if deemed appropriate by the court. It has now been decided by federal court in Oakland, California that Nintendo did not breach any of Quintal's patents.
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The suit was filed by the Quintal Research Group after it secured a parent for a "computerized information retrieval system" back in 2008. The crucial bit of the patent focused on the device "having a generally rectangular shape with a display screen on one side that has a frame with an ergonomic placement of finger controls including a pair of thumb controls on the top of the display with at least one of the finger controls being a cursor or pointer control."
Though Quintal swiftly informed Nintendo about the patent at the start of 2009 and offered the Japanese giant a license four times, Nintendo refused to continue discussions in July of the same year.Quintal filed the suit in February 2013 and sought damages, costs and other relief if deemed appropriate by the court. It has now been decided by federal court in Oakland, California that Nintendo did not breach any of Quintal's patents.
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